Background*

Mr. Brian Aker serves as General Advisor of Keas Inc. Mr. Aker is an industry consultant after Sun's acquisition by Oracle Corporation in 2010. Mr. Aker worked in Sun's research group on the Drizzle database project. Mr. Aker served as Director of Architecture at MySQL. Mr. Aker serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Schooner Information Technology, Inc. Mr. Aker served as a Member of Advisory Board of Splunk, Inc. He is a self-proclaimed open-source hacker who has ... made immense contributions to a wide range of projects including various Apache modules, the Slash system, and numerous storage engines for the MySQL database.

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